FED:HSU boss steps aside from ALP roles

Health Services Union president
Michael Williamson
has quit two positions in the Labor Party.

Mr Williamson has resigned as ALP national vice-president and senior vice-president of the NSW ALP branch, the ALP said in a statement.

The union last week moved to disaffiliate from the ALP in NSW, Victoria and the ACT.

The party said Mr Williamson believed it was in the union's best interest for him to step aside.

The HSU has been battered by a series of allegations relating to Mr Williamson, and federal Labor MP Craig Thomson, a former national secretary.

NSW fraud squad detectives last week launched an investigation into the Health Services Union after its national secretary Kathy Jackson admitted having concerns about corruption within the organisation.

Ms Jackson claimed ALP figures were using the HSU as a political football and singled out Victorian federal MPs Stephen Conroy and Bill Shorten.

Earlier this month, NSW police said there was no evidence for a criminal investigation into Mr Thomson over the use of HSU credit cards from 2002 to 2007 when he was national secretary.